OILS is OILS
On Saturday 14 March 2009, I chartered a helicopter and flew Moreton Island's east coast to see how the beach was coping with the estimated 200,000 litres of oil spilled from the cargo vessel Pacific Adventurer in rough seas off southern Queensland three days earlier.

Of added concern to the ocean off southern Queeensland are the 31 shipping containers full of ammonium nitrate fertiliser that toppled off the ship during the incident. The Australian Navy minehunter HMAS Yarra has been called in to help search for the rogue containers.

The offending ship's Captain has had his passport confiscated pending investigation. See an animation of how the incident unfolded on the Maritime Services QLD website.

You can see the track the chopper took thanks to a great little App called GPS Kit on my new iPhone.